BI-POLARISM...another excuse to act stupid?
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what an @ss
being bipolar isnt a choice,and with proper meds i can function normaly
but you will probaly always be a jerk
bite me
eat me
se ya in heII
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It exists; hope you never need to deal with serious emotional problems
I take it we're not talking about bisexual polar bears here.
If it IS an "excuse to act stupid", then surely you must be suffering from it
Bipolar people don't act stupid, they just have severe mood changes, some people have issues, maybe you should respect that and be thankful you don't have some of those problems.
no, its really not. but it is hard to understand. if you truly wish too understand, than contact a mental health agency and volunteer to work with patients. you will appreciate their intense stuggle more, and understand it.
I think it depends on the person, I know some people that try to use it as an excuse, but I know many where it's real and serious. You can usually tell the difference, but try and be sympathetic to those who have it, it's hard to control.
I guess you do not know a person that has the illness, Who would chose to live that type of life. Everyday is a rollercoaster where you never quite make it to the end.
bi-polar is far more serious than that. its extreme anger and mood
swings to extreme highs and happiness swung back to all time
sadness and depression. its a severe problem that needs real help.
I hope you never have to deal with it.
It is scary to watch, it destroys families and it can happen to
very bright people.
By the way, it could happen to you. There are many cases
where bi-polar or manic/depressive behavior has developed
later in life.
There a variety of drugs that help, but all have side effects.
The most famous is lithium - but it makes people feel numb
and they eventually don't want to take it any more.
Bipolar disease exists as a medical fact. Be very glad that you have never had, or loved anyone who had it.
There are several things (too many things) that people do use as an excuse for not dealing with problems from their past - like stealing, because they grew up poor. They are acts done intentionally - knowing they are bad. Medical conditions do not fall into that category.
This is extremely offensive... but since ignorance is usually offensive although sometimes forgiveable, let me try to educate you. Once you read up on it, you then will upgrade to "stupid" from "ignorant" (mind you, I'm only giving you the benefit of the doubt here) if you still believe that someone who is bi-polar is "just an excuse to act stupid."
(From Wikipedia) Bi-Polar Disorder (previously known as manic depression) is a diagnostic category describing a class of mood disorders in which the person experiences states or episodes of depression and/or mania, hypomania, and/or mixed states. Left untreated, it is a severely disabling psychiatric condition. The difference between bipolar disorder and unipolar disorder (also called major depression) — for the purpose of this introduction — is that bipolar disorder involves "energized" or "activated" mood states in addition to depressed mood states. The duration and intensity of mood states varies widely among people with the illness. Fluctuating from one mood state to another is called "cycling" or having mood swings. Mood swings cause impairment not only in one's mood, but also in one's energy level, sleep pattern, activity level, social rhythms and thinking abilities. Many people become fully disabled — for significant periods of time — and during this time have great difficulty functioning.
Read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-polar_disorder
And for goodness sake, stop being one of those people who (luckily) doesn't have any "mental" problems (other than being an idiot) and makes fun of those or doesn't believe those who do. Be happy that you don't have this diblitating disorder, and have some compassion for those who do!
Clearly you are very under-educated in the Field of mental health, the mind can and often does become as ill as the body. Bi-Polar disorders are REAL and are not True mental illnesses, they are caused by a chemical imbalance produced by the neurotransmitters of the brain and most can be easily treated with medication that helps to correct the imbalance. I truly wish you NEVER have to face such a trial, no one wants nor deserves to be "labeled".
~For Roald Amundsen and Richard Byrd, it was circumnavigating longitudinally.
http://psychcentral.com/disorders/bipolar/?gclid=CJSJnPOb1oYCFR92QgodFAPdiw
check that out could explain what bipolar is to you ,,,,, because obviosley you dont understand it much hope you find out weather we have excuse's or not,,,,,,,,its not excuse either i have had it since i was 14 ,,,?
No it is a serious mental health issue but if you LIVE with someone who has bi-polar disorder it can FEEL like it somedays.
I agree with you. The word "bipolar" is simply a label used to categorise a list of psychosocial traits that Psychiatry considers to be improper or abnormal in society. Psychiatry defines these traits as a "mental illness", and promotes it as a "disease" that requires "treatment".
“Bipolar” has its origins in psychiatry's widely discredited DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) The DSM's criteria are vague and ill defined and have their origin in psychiatrists convention where they simply vote new diseases into existence. (“All in favor say aye” -- and you've got yourself a new disease). It is based on a brain disease model which cannot be proven by any sort of medical tests.
The lack of science behind the DSM gives a clear idea of why it has earned such critics as the following:
Herb Kutchins of California State University, Sacramento, and Stuart A. Kirk of the University of California, Los Angeles, authors of Making Us Crazy: The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders wrote, “the developers of DSM assume that if a group of psychiatrists agree on a list of atypical [new] behaviors, the behaviors constitute a valid mental disorder. Using this approach, creating mental disorders can become a parlor game in which clusters of all kinds of behaviors (i.e. syndromes) can be added to the manual.”
Dr. Thomas Dorman, an internist and member of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, wrote, “In short, the whole business of creating psychiatric categories of ‘disease,’ formalizing them with consensus, and subsequently ascribing diagnostic codes to them, which in turn leads to their use for insurance billing, is nothing but an extended racket furnishing psychiatry a pseudo-scientific aura. The perpetrators are, of course, feeding at the public trough.”
Psychiatrists claim that a person “needs” a drug to combat their “chemical imbalance” in the brain which is causing a person’s “mental disorder.” However, the concept that a brain-based, chemical imbalance underlies mental illness is false. While popularized by heavy public marketing, it is simply psychiatric wishful thinking. As with all of psychiatry’s disease models, it has been thoroughly discredited by researchers.
Diabetes is a biochemical imbalance. However, as Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Glenmullen states, “the definitive test and biochemical imbalance is a high blood sugar balance level. Treatment in severe cases is insulin injections, which restore sugar balance. The symptoms clear and retest shows the blood sugar is normal. Nothing like a sodium imbalance or blood sugar imbalance exists for depression or any other psychiatric syndrome.”
In 1996, psychiatrist David Kaiser said, “...modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any single mental illness...Patients [have] been diagnosed with ‘chemical imbalances’ despite the fact that no test exists to support such a claim, and...there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance would look like.”
Symptoms of “bipolar” are often in reality symptom of physiological, but not psychological problems. A good medical doctor can do a blood test (real doctors do tests, quacks do not) and can find if someone has a lack of certain amino acids, a vitamin deficiency, toxicity, low thyroid function or a hormonal imbalance. If for example, a person has a Vitamin B12 deficiency, they can then take Vitamin B12 and will soon feel much better.
bi polar ism is a disorder that does exist,however today its a excuse to do horrible things and blame it on bipolar ism there really isn't an exact way to check for bi polar-ism and until there is it will be an excuse that people use
Its a chemical imbalance and as real a health problem as diabetes. The frustrating part is there are no cut and dry answers on how to treat it. Its a shame that people like you treat it that way.
I was diagnosted with bi-polar.. It's not fun. You want to be able to deal, and it's not just things from the past. It's things that are going on that you have no control over. some poepl just never learned how to cope. For others, it's hard.
With meds, I function well. I think everyone needs alittle help sometimes.
no you are wrong bipolar is actually an imbalance in the brain which can cause mood swing..like severe depression, then to a manic state, you can tell the difference in a bipolar person who takes meds and one that doesn't, it has nothing to do with problems of the past, that would be more post traumatic stress disorder.
Bipolar is a mental disorder, it's not just made up. However, people can choose to either deal with the disorder and get it treated or not. Some people just use it as an excuse for their behavior while not doing anything at all to try to treat the disorder. In those cases it's a lousy excuse (in my opinion), because even though it's the disorder that makes them behave weird/bad, it's their own fault that they don't try to do anything about that.
But on the other hand, some people really are trying to do something about their disorder and it's not fair to say they just use bipolar as an excuse to act stupid and avoid dealing with their problems. The behavior is actually the symptoms of a disorder and dealing with mental disorders is hard, it's not like the symptoms just disappear when you snap your fingers.
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